Third brake light, Increased safety. |
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Third brake light, Increased safety. |
914Toy |
Apr 29 2020, 11:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 721 Joined: 12-November 17 From: Laguna beach Member No.: 21,596 Region Association: Southern California |
Reacting to the awful rear end collision reported this week here on World, I think a third brake light install is a low cost serious safety upgrade, Here is a question for SPOKE, how about suggesting or better, supplying a "blinking" relay(?) to wire in series with a third brake light power supply? Thus always, but only making the third brake light "blink' when the brake light is on via the brake pedal, to get the attention of these idiot texting drivers.
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914Toy |
Apr 30 2020, 11:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 721 Joined: 12-November 17 From: Laguna beach Member No.: 21,596 Region Association: Southern California |
Several of us have installed a third brake light that is available on eBay etc. and was stock on the late 1980's Corvettes, and surprisingly also on the 944 Cabriolet (spell?) - identical!
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Bartlett 914 |
Apr 30 2020, 12:03 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,216 Joined: 30-August 05 From: South Elgin IL Member No.: 4,707 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Several of us have installed a third brake light that is available on eBay etc. and was stock on the late 1980's Corvettes, and surprisingly also on the 944 Cabriolet (spell?) - identical! This is what I have. I think it is a perfect fit and looks great on the car. Having said that, I lost my 914 in a rear end collision. Maybe under the roll bar would be better because it is higher. I cannot see mine sitting in the car. I don't think I would like to see something in the rear view mirror. Lights don't stop cars so nothing is perfect |
horizontally-opposed |
May 1 2020, 09:54 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,432 Joined: 12-May 04 From: San Francisco Member No.: 2,058 Region Association: None |
Several of us have installed a third brake light that is available on eBay etc. and was stock on the late 1980's Corvettes, and surprisingly also on the 944 Cabriolet (spell?) - identical! This is what I have. I think it is a perfect fit and looks great on the car. Having said that, I lost my 914 in a rear end collision. Maybe under the roll bar would be better because it is higher. I cannot see mine sitting in the car. I don't think I would like to see something in the rear view mirror. Lights don't stop cars so nothing is perfect Have long wanted to do something like this, but don't want to see the third brake light on the car...so I haven't. Need to do Spoke's brake light upgrades first, but I like your idea of putting something on the upper part of the targa bar—you wouldn't see it standing near the car, but a driver following you at any distance where there's still time to brake would. I wonder just how low profile something could be with today's LED lights? I wonder if it could get anywhere near slim enough to be "invisible" on the car—which might be slim enough to be acceptable in the rearview mirror. Anything there would help... https://www.amazon.com/s?k=camper+shell+bra...;ref=nb_sb_noss |
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